Seven pounds eight ounces of joy

[example22]

The world is divided into Mozart fans and Wagner fans, and I am definitely a Mozart fan. Even so, I dithered for quite a while in HMV before I had an attack of box-set-ism and bought the complete Mozart. Only fifty quid in the sales, and it's one hundred and seventy CDs. That's a thirty-centimetre stack, weighing 3.4 kilos (and that's in paper envelopes; if they were in jewel cases, you'd have to build an extension to your house).

I'm all partied out (thanks, smallbeasts, for the New Year party, and purpletigron and purplecthulhu for the open house), and I now have the perfect reason to hibernate. 10 down, 160 to go...

Comments

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

Wow! I take it they are excellent recordings?

It was a pleasure to see you :-)

[example22.livejournal.com]

Excellentness is not something I'm competent to assess, but they seem fine enough to me. There are quite a lot of different artists involved (you'd guessed, hadn't you?), but nothing obviously in a league with "Mickey Mouse Band of Bavaria Plays Your Classical Top Fifty".

Good to see you, too. See you at the Pembury Tavern, or Picocon, whichever is sooner...

[vicarage.livejournal.com]

I'd be curious what you think of the unfamous 3/4 of the set. I've got about 40 Mozart CDs, and rarely get to the end of the range.

[example22.livejournal.com]

I imagine a lot of it will be listened to exactly once (there are nineteen operas, for a start, and there's probably a good reason why I've never heard of thirteen of them). I'm looking forward to discovering new favourites, though.

[teaparty.net (from livejournal.com)]

personally, bach. does that make me a mozart or a wagner person?

[example22.livejournal.com]

Mozart. Because I said so.

(Though now you have me wondering where I got that meme from...)

[southorizons.livejournal.com]

170cds? thats very substantial!

hope you'll enjoy listening to classical music and eating ginger cookies ;-P